Ebook: Laughter in the dark
Author: Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich
- Tags: Adultery -- Fiction. Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Fiction. Germany -- Fiction. Adultery. Motion pictures -- Production and direction. Germany. FICTION / General Fiction.
- Series: Vintage international
- Year: 1989
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- City: New York, Germany, Germany
- Edition: 1st Vintage international ed
- Language: English, Русский
- epub
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s. From the Trade Read more...
Abstract: Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s. From the Trade Paperback edition